A friendly reminder that the first joint Analytics and Research office hours will take place on 2020-01-22 at 17.00-18.00 (UTC). Bring your Wikimedia related research and data questions to us during these office hours. More at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
-- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 3:39 AM Martin Gerlach <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > We, the Research team at Wikimedia Foundation, have received some requests > over the past months for making ourselves more available to answer some of > the research questions that you as Wikimedia volunteers, affiliates' staff, > and researchers face in your projects and initiatives. Starting January 2020, > we will experiment with monthly office hours organized jointly by our team > and the Analytics team where you can join us and direct your questions to us. > We will revisit this experiment in June 2020 to assess whether to continue it > or not. > > > The scope > > We encourage you to attend the office hour if you have research related > questions. These can be questions about our teams, our projects, or more > importantly questions about your projects or ideas that we can support you > with during the office hours. You can also ask us questions about how to use > a specific dataset available to you, to answer a question you have, or some > other question. Note that the purpose of the office hours is to answer your > questions during the dedicated time of the office hour. Questions that may > require many hours of back-and-forth between our team and you are not suited > for this forum. For these bigger questions, however, we are happy to > brainstorm with you in the office hour and point you to some good directions > to explore further on your own (and maybe come back in the next office hour > and ask more questions). > > > Time and Location > > We meet on the 4th Wednesday of every month 17.00-18.00 (UTC) in > #wikimedia-research IRC channel on freenode [1]. > > The first meeting will be on January 22. > > Up-to-date information on mediawiki [2] > > > Archiving > > If you miss the office hour, you can read the logs of it at [3]. > > The future announcements about these office hours will only go to the > following lists so please make sure you're subscribed to them if you like to > receive a ping: > > * wiki-research-l mailing list [4] > > * analytics mailing list [5] > > * wikidata mailing list [6] > > * the Research category in Space [7] > > > on behalf of Research and Analytics at WMF, > > Martin > > > [1] irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-research > > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours > > [3] https://wm-bot.wmflabs.org/logs/%23wikimedia-research/ > > [4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > [7] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/tags/research > > > > -- > Martin Gerlach > Research Scientist > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
